Showing at WatchTime New York 2019: Glashütte Original Spezialist SeaQ Panorama Date
Glashütte Original, the Swatch Group-owned firm that emerged from the end of Cold War-era nationalization of Germany?s top watchmaking companies, has had modern success with vintage-styled models like the Sixties and Seventies, which hearken back to the ?Spezimatic? watches from those pre-unification decades. This year, the Saxon manufacture adds an entirely new and sporty collection called ?Spezialist,? debuting with new SeaQ line of dive watches, which Glashütte Original will showcase at the WatchTime New York collectors event on October 25-26. Here is a look at the flagship of the new line, the SeaQ Panorama Date.
Spezlalist SeaQ Panorama Date with sunburst black dial on steel bracelet
Like the other new models in the collection, the mainline SeaQ and vintage-inspired SeaQ 1969 limited edition, the SeaQ Panorama Date takes inspiration from the Spezimatic Type RP TS 200?, a watch developed for sports divers. Larger than its two brothers, at 43.2 mm in diameter compared to 39.5 mm, the Panorama Date model also boasts a more robust water resistance of 300 meters. The stainless steel case has both polished and satin finished surfaces and is topped by a unidirectional rotating divers? bezel. The dial, offered in either sunburst black or sunburst blue, is covered by a curved sapphire crystal and hosts applied numerals and indices coated, like the distinctively shaped hands, with Super-LumiNova. It also features at 4 o’clock its signature complication, an outsized date ...
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